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Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing.

心理学家最近关注的是，人们倾向于思考一些与自己正在做的任务无关的事情。

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Moreover, the tendency for universities to monitor and shape student behaviour runs up against another characteristic of young adults: the response to being controlled by their elders.

此外，大学监督和塑造学生行为的趋势与年轻人的另一个特征相冲突:他们对被长辈控制时所作出的反应。

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Analysts say it was an example of Mr.Saakashvili's erratic tendency to act quickly, without considering the consequences.

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Hartman describes Milton's tendency in Paradise Lost, and he takes this term from Coleridge: the tendency to stand ab extra, to stand from outside.

哈特曼描述了弥尔顿在中的写作趋向，并且从柯勒律治那里借用了这个习语：,由外而内俯视自身的趋势。

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I feel like people, I think I definitely have the tendency to do that.

我觉得人们，我想我当然也有那样做的倾向。

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Yet one thing is not new: the tendency of investors to veer off into irrational exuberance.

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And one should never underestimate the tendency of a U.S. CEO to get rid of workers.

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They regularly decry the tendency of poor Filipinos to vote for scoundrels based on name recognition.

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